Artificial Blood Flavoring
Ch 9
Roxas POV
I walked into the locker room right behind Demyx, Zexion, and Axel. The room was like a volcano's guest room without any air conditioning. I saw that the other people were undressing and then putting on some tacky black and silver P.E. uniform.
Inwardly I gagged at the shorts. They would be like short shorts on me, most likely. I went to my locker, which was number one hundred and thirteen. My locker was only four down from Demyx. Demyx was right next to Axel. Zexion was one down from Axel but no one was in between Zexion and Axel leaving number one hundred and seven empty.
As I looked over at the group, I was thankful that my heart had stopped a long time ago pumping the blood all over in my body. The sight I was met with would have made me blush like I had a fever; the irony of the thought of me, a vampire, getting a sickness of any form. Anyway, I am getting off track, I saw Axel, a very good looking guy, taking off his shirt. He had some muscles, even though he looked anorexic. His hair fell down as he lifted his shirt over his head, and threw the piece of cloth into his overly stuffed locker.
He lifted his head and began to look around him, and I went back to dressing. I quickly pulled off my t-shirt and pants and pulled on the ridiculous shirt and the surprisingly long, at least on me, shorts. The shorts fell down a few inches past my knees. I saw that almost everyone was out of the locker room except a selective few and Zexion, Demyx, and Axel.
"Roxy!" I heard the shout before I saw out of the corner of my eye, the said blond fly towards me, and I had déjà vu feeling. You know the ones where you have to stop for a moment and think about it. Then there are times where you don't remember what you did that made you feel like that.
Back to the "now", I felt a heavy human arm on my shoulders, like I was a very good friend on Demyx. Which I am not, just to get that out in the open.
"Are you ready to head to class?" Demyx asked, smiling at me.
"Um…I guess." The way I said it sounded like a question, even to me. I felt like I needed to get away, and the rushing blood in the group wasn't helping me one but. I walked slowly toward the door of the overly hot locker room. I walked slowly so they could catch up to me if they wanted to because if they wanted to, they could.
As I was walking through the big gym doors, I heard that slightly behind me, a pair of quite feet coming out of the locker room. That was most likely Zexion. I saw that Cloud was standing next to the entrance of the doors. I nodded as I passed him. He just glanced at me before going back to his little school notebook of doom or something else that will kill someone or something.
I sat in the back of the circle of people. I saw that Axel and Zexion came into the gym talking about something, with Demyx coming up right behind them. I could remotely hear 'Dark Knight' and 'Saturday', maybe they were making plans on going to see the new movie that just came out 'Dark Knight'.
Oh I remember when they had come out with the worst special effects for the movie, now that I think about it, in 1966. Then they made a remake of that one in 1989, which was ok. This one is 99.9 going to have better effects. I enjoyed the joker in 1989; I do believe his actor was…um…It has been a while since I have remembered the actor…Ah! His actor was Jack Nicholson. He did a good job playing the messed up "clown", even though the Joker was never a "clown". He was an evil villain! Not a clown, even though he did a good job dressing up as a clown.
I saw that Demyx ran out from behind them and sat down next to me. Soon as he sat down, Axel and Zexion sat down too.
"Hey Roxy! How are you?" The dimwitted or I think he is, blond said.
"Good." I said, looking at Cloud, telling him that I would kill him if he didn't start the class. He looked up at me and the other students and walked towards the group.
"Hello class, I am Mr. Cloud Strife. Nice to meet all of you students. Once I call out your name, please raise your hand or say 'here'." Cloud said, not looking up for the notebook.
"David Brockmier?" was the first name he started with.
"Here" Said a nervous voice from the front. He was probably one of those kids that get picked on.
As Cloud went down the list, he said Demyx's name and Zexion's name.
"Axel Takeshi?" He said, as he checked off the last student.
"Here" I heard his smooth voice say.
As he checked off Axel, he said, "Roxas?"
"Yeah, I'm here" I said, still mad at him that he didn't stop Sora and his stupid joke this morning.
Cloud just chuckled and said under his breath so that I could hear, "Don't have to be so grumpy that you didn't get your chocolate. I mentally was fuming at him. Stupid butt face.
After Cloud called my name he quickly scanned to make sure that he got everyone, before tucking that notebook under his arm. "Ok! To start out for a warm up, you all will run five laps. And you start," Cloud said as he looked at his watch on his wrist, "Now!" He finished by shouting at the students, which made almost all of them jump.
They slowly walked out of the gym, groaning about how many laps they had to do. It was pitiful at how today's kids will complain at how much they have to work now. In the days I was living, I chuckle as I head outside; I spent most of the day working doing multiple chores a day. They were getting lazy and whiney. I quickly began a nice, steady jog for my first lap.
I saw the Axel was ahead of me by a couple of feet. He looked back at me and said," Hey Roxy, you wanna race me?" I looked at him for a minute, processing why he was calling me Roxy like Demyx, then said," Whatever." Just look like I didn't care, I also shrugged my shoulders. I saw him smirk and I immediately got mad. He thought that he could beat me? A vampire, well he is so screwed then.
Very few vampires have a special ability that makes them stand out. For instance, Sora can read minds. Sometimes that is a very bad thing like when you want to keep a secret a secret. Other times like when a hunter is after you and they have a plan.
Cloud is also another special one, but he doesn't have a 'power' per say, when he was human, or so we think, he is a master of martial arts. Any type actually. That really helps when on hand-to-hand combat.
I can transport from place to place in a matter of seconds, with others or not, as long as I know where I am going. So I guess the helps too, when running away for hunters.
Anyway, as Axel was on his third lap, I had finished all fives of my laps. I think, I am not sure because I have a feeling that I ran more than five laps. I remember passing the David kid I think nine times. So I think I did nine laps. Yup, I did nine laps.
I saw that Cloud had his head in his hands as I sat down a bleacher up from and I decided it was time to find out how bad it is to have class with Sora as a student. "So, how was class with Sora?" I asked, smirking when he shuddered. "That bad?" I teased. He just looked up at me and glared at me. He knew I knew how bad class was with Sora.
Back in the old school we had, I had P.E. class with Sora. He was like a little kid with coffee. The school had hired a total of four teachers before we left. I remember that Sora was sad when he left, probably because the teachers were thinking badly about him. I was pissed at them, the school's educators, thinking badly of a "Precious Student" or so they say that he was one of theirs. So before we left, I wanted to make them feel so bad that they wouldn't do that to anyone else.
I had taken spray paint and teleported into all of the classes that Sora was called a "Precious Student" and drew horrifying pictures that would most likely scar them. I also went into their houses and had altered their happy, rainbow filled dreams and made them their worst and most realistic nightmares. I really enjoyed it because one of the teachers, I do believe his name was Mr. Fruit, and he
was scared of…Girl Scout cookies. I laughed when I had found this out. So I enjoyed torturing him till this day. I made him being eaten by those overly minty mint cookies and every month or so, I would send him a box full of minty mint cookies. I never did give him a return address. Although it was annoying when he would move and I found out when he moved I would buy him two boxes full of mint cookies.
As I finished remembering this…this…refreshing memory, I asked Cloud what was with the notebook.
"Just grades of how the class is doing and participating." He said as he looked out to the slow kid running. " You give up?" I heard Axel's voice. He said though it wasn't like the voice was smooth when he had answered Cloud, his voice sounded like he was out of breath. As I looked up, I saw that Axel was walking up to us, looking smug and all tall-and-mighty even though he was sweating. I knew that I wasn't even damp near on my neck or forhead.
"I finished when you were on your third lap. You run kinda slow." After I said that I went back to talking to Cloud, making sure my eyes never left what Cloud was saying. However I saw that out of the corner of my eye, Axel had stopped walking and his mouth was hanging open. To tell the truth, he looked really stupid. Like he was told that whatever game he like and was coming out, just got canceled or it was out of stock. I saw that Cloud was looking at Axel with laughter in his eyes and it was clearly funny to anyone who could see it.
I also looked at Axel when Cloud said, "Might want to close your mouth before you get bugs in there." Axel abruptly closed his mouth and tried to walk as nonchalant as he could with his broken and/or damaged pride next to me and plopped down next to me. He made the metal bleachers clank. Axel was looking out towards the group of running people.
I also looked and I saw the Zexion was walking towards us, without an sweat on him, which was weird, and Demyx was next to him chatting happily with him.
A/N: Hey! Thank you for reading Artificial Blood Flavoring Chapter 9. I am truely sorry I haven't updated lately. I have been reading Eclispe and I will shortly begin Breaking Dawn. I already saw Dark Knight and REALLY enjoyed that, can't wait till it comes out. Anyway, for those who haven't seen it, I will not try to spoil the Movie, but I am truely sorry if i do.
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